Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: New Mexico
This site has a colorful display of information about New Mexico. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: New York
This site has a colorful display of information about New York. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Vermont
This site has a colorful display of information about Vermont. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Virginia
This site has a colorful display of information about Virginia. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Washington
This site has a colorful display of information about Washington. It contains a map, pictures, a list of state symbols, and links to related information.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bee Navigation
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores honeybee communication and navigation. [4:45]
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Making Observations and Drawings
This lesson will help students develop their scientific observation skills and encourages students to make detailed observations. They will draw and describe insect specimens so another classmate can identify it.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Science Explorations: Uncover Lizards and Snakes
An exploration of squamates, or scaled reptiles. Take notes about lizards and snakes using the pdf "Squamate Chart" while viewing a slideshow, investigate the squamate anatomy and how squamates differ from other animals, such as insects...
Youngzine
Youngzine: Laugh With the 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes
Un-boiling eggs, slippery bananas, and painful insect stings have been award-winning topics at the Ig Nobel ceremonies over the last few years. An Ig prize makes people laugh first, then think.
My Learning
My Learning: Minibeasts
All you need for an in-depth study of invertebrates is here on this site. Includes worksheets, quiz, useful information, and a fun interactive section where you can build your own super bug!
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Partners in Pollination
Here is a three-part lesson plan on the plant and animal relationship in respect to pollination.
Other
M. Tevfik Dorak, m.d., ph.d.: Mimicry
Describes what mimicry is. Describes the different kinds of mimicry found and by whom.
Other
The Idiom Connection
Users can search this list of idioms and their explanations either alphabetically or by subject matter, such as Food Idioms, Business Idioms, or Animal Idioms. There are also quizzes on each category of idiom so students can test their...
Healthline Media
Medical News Today: What Are Bed Bugs?
Bed bugs are becoming a growing problem today. Find out what they are, how dangerous they are to humans, how they feed and reproduce, treatment, and how to control them.
NASA
Electromagnetic Spectrum: Ultraviolet Waves
Ultraviolet (UV) light has shorter wavelengths than visible light. Though these waves are invisible to the human eye, some insects can see them. The specific wavelength values are given. Uses and applications of these waves are explained.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Entomology in Action
Two lesson plans are found in this site. Lesson Plan 1 is geared to grades 6-9. In this plan, student's will be able to list the different stages of the blow fly's life cycle and understand how the life cycle and ADH (accumulated degree...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Goldenrod Gall Investigation
In this life science field investigation students study goldenrod gall population.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Mosquitoes O Logy Card
Turn over this interactive OLogy card and start learning bite-size pieces of useful information about mosquitoes, such as their diet and physical characteristics.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Songs and Poems
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Mosquito Bytes
A general description of the life cycle of the mosquito. Includes inforation on why they need blood and how they breed.
Other
Walking Well: Arthropod Stings
This site has interesting information about stings from different arthropods like bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, ants, caterpillars, spiders, ticks, centipedes, millipedes, and scorpions.